🛡️ CVE-2022-37616
🔴 CVSS 9.8 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-1321 NVD
9.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

A prototype pollution vulnerability exists in the function copy in dom.js in the xmldom (published as @xmldom/xmldom) package before 0.8.3 for Node.js via the p variable. NOTE: the vendor states "we are in the process of marking this report as invalid"; however, some third parties takes the position that "A prototype injection/Prototype pollution is not just when global objects are polluted with recursive merge or deep cloning but also when a target object is polluted."

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-1321
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2022-10-11
Updated 2026-06-15
Modified 2026-03-13

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
@xmldom/xmldom
debian-linux
xmldom

References

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